Apple’s iPhone 3G is continuing its march around the globe with reports of 120,000 sold by T-Mobile in Europe, plus a deal for distribution in Russia.

In an interview Monday, the head of Deutsche Telekom told the German magazine Focus that its wireless arm, T-Mobile, has sold that number since it was made available on July 11. The sales figure was reached, said Hamid Akhavan, in spite of distribution problems.

22 Countries Simultaneously

Those problems, Akhavan

said, include customers having to wait weeks for delivery, although he added that the backlog of deliveries will be resolved by the end of that month. He attributed the delays to Apple’s decision to distribute the iPhone 3G in 22 countries simultaneously.

Akhavan said 75,000 of the sales were in Germany. In Europe, T-Mobile plus sells the iPhone in Austria and the Netherlands.

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